Ernesto Valverde was repeated at least twice with the goal being to reach a good position in the classification when ten days were played, where the teams were placed in their respective positions. This is when a more realistic assessment can be made.
His team is on track to achieve this after adding ten points to a possible fifteen. The championship started with a bad image, including a defeat against Real Madrid in San Mamés, but then it reacted with three solid victories and a draw with Mallorca that could have been a victory because if there is a team that deserves to win, it’s the team. red and white Above all, the victories against Osasuna, Betis and Cádiz left a very good taste among the fans because they came in a solvent way, with very few regrets.
The Lions now have five games to go to reach their coach’s publicly announced goal. This series begins this Friday with the visit of Alavés in the second derby of the season. The statistics work against the visitors – three draws and four defeats in the last seven outings at Mendizorrotza and they haven’t won in twenty years – and the team as a whole Luis Garcia Plaza He saved this start in the championship at home, where he added six reflective points to his locker after defeating Sevilla and Valencia, two tough rivals. Their three outings at Cádiz, Getafe and Rayo count as defeats.
Anoeta derby
The next match (Wednesday, September 27) is in Bilbao against Getafe de Bordalas, a coach who arouses little sympathy in the San Mamés stand and makes the games very complicated. On Saturday the 30th is the Anoeta derby against Real Sociedad, who just three days later will visit Salzburg on the second day of the group stage of the Champions League, and on Friday, October 6, Almería will come to Bilbao, that at this time. time He is the lowest player with only one point in his locker. The partial test will close with a visit to the Camp Nou on a date yet to be determined (October 21 or 22), a match to be played after the second FIFA break of the season. A month to please the coach.
Txingurri’s team finished five league games from last season with eight points. The Bilbao team also reached the fifth matchday with ten points and reached the tenth with 18. They won consecutively against Rayo (3-2) and Almería (4-0) on matchdays 6 and 7 , they drew at home with Sevilla (1-1), they lost to Atlético (0-1) in their second defeat of the season after they also suffered at home against Espanyol and they again signed a draw at the Coliseum. Athletic closed the tenth day in sixth, just two points off the Champions League positions held by the Colchoneros at the time. Will you sign Valverde come to this situation on Sunday, October 22?
ALAVES IS SECOND
Four points in League 22-23 in these games
Athletic have added four points in these previous League games against four rivals active in the highest category they will face in next month’s competition which starts tomorrow. Alavés is in the Second Division.
The team led by Ernesto Valverde beat Almería in San Mamés (4-0) in the match corresponding to the eighth day and also drew with Getafe at home (0-0).
However, he lost both visits to Barça and Real Sociedad. The red and white fell 4-0 at Camp Nou in one of the worst games of the season and 3-1 in the Anoeta derby played on January 14.
Source: La Verdad
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